entrepreneur in news
Google to invest in start-ups?
News The group has also hired former entrepreneur William Maris to help set up the venture, the newspaper reported. Google is revisiting efforts to create a venture capital arm, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal's website Wednesday night. [31 Jul 2008]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Nevertheless, Fortune still described him as "the iconic technologist, entrepreneur and business leader of his generation". Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer... [29 Nov 2007]
Search gurus see big bucks in the enterprise
News The panellists said they were impressed with search engines like ZoomInfo.com, the job candidate search engine, and Mahalo, the search engine started by publishing entrepreneur Jason Calacanis that uses human-created results for the most popular... [29 Jun 2007]
Facebook facing "app fatigue"
News At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup in New York, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written "I NEED AN APP" in thick black marker on his name tag. [18 Jun 2007]
Young entrepreneurs winning out with web skills
News Adam Hildreth, young entrepreneur and CEO of software maker Crisp Thinking, said this is upsetting more traditional business people and leading to "a lot of annoyed grey hair out there". Hildreth won the CBI Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006... [23 May 2007]
Pixel millionaire makes his next move
News Alex Tew, the 22-year-old entrepreneur behind The Million Dollar Homepage which took the web by storm last year, has launched his latest venture - again involving one million dollars and the sale of pixels. [07 Dec 2006]
'Leave Mac-making to the experts'
News The report was slammed by readers such as Eric Bartels, an entrepreneur from the Netherlands who said: "The Gartner report shows how out of touch most business analysts and venture capitalists are with what really matters in this age of branding. [26 Oct 2006]
Cuban backs corporate fraud exposé website
News Entrepreneur billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in a new journalism site focused on exposing corporate fraud. The unusual partnership of new-age entrepreneur and veteran journalist began over the internet. [15 Jun 2006]
Tech entrepreneurs celebrated
News The Essence of the Entrepreneur awards, run by BT, has chosen the top 20 small businesses in the UK who have been able to use technology to create new opportunities. A number of UK tech companies have picked up gongs for their entrepreneurship. [12 Jun 2006]
Skype backers walk away with awards
News Bango CEO Ray Anderson was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, while the teaming up of Vodafone and Fujitsu Services saw them win in the Partnering for Innovation Award. Index Ventures, the venture capital company that backed voice over IP... [22 Feb 2006]
Look to the users for tech innovation, says MIT chief
News Technology innovations are more likely to come from someone's living room than from the corporate boardroom or even an entrepreneur's garage, according to Frank Moss, the newly named director of the MIT Media Lab. [17 Feb 2006]
Salesforce.com goes offline again and again
News Mike Sax, an entrepreneur in Eugene, Oregon, wrote in his blog: "As a Salesforce.com customer, I am very disappointed by [Benioff's] statement. Several disgruntled Salesforce.com customers took their complaints to the blogosphere this week after... [01 Feb 2006]
Compliance backlash: 'Get mad or get even'
News Speaking on a compliance round table at CA World in Las Vegas, serial entrepreneur Steve Papermaster suggested many companies over-spent in the belief that throwing money at the problem might at least ensure all the right boxes were ticked. [15 Nov 2005]
Terry Matthews scoops CNET lifetime achievement award
News UK serial entrepreneur and founder of Mitel, Sir Terry Matthews, scooped the top honour at last night's CNET Technology Awards in London, when he landed the award for Outstanding Contribution to the UK Technology Sector. [28 Sep 2005]
Nominet claims victory in iTunes.co.uk dispute
News Internet domain names registrar Nominet has been handed a victory in its court case with entrepreneur Benjamin Cohen, who had disputed a Nominet ruling ordering him to give the iTunes.co.uk address to Apple. [05 Aug 2005]
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